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Gaydos v. Guidant Corp.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech
In a multidistrict litigation involving defective medical devices, dismissal of plaintiffs' claims for failure to comply with pretrial orders is...

In re Metoprolol Succinate Patent Litigation

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a consolidated multidistrict patent infringement litigation alleging that defendants' Abbreviated New Drug Applications violated plaintiff's...

In re: Merck & Co., Inc. Sec., Derivative & ERISA Litig.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Securities Law
In a shareholder suit which is part of the VIOXX-related litigation, dismissal of the suit on the grounds that plaintiffs failed to make pre-suit...

US ex rel. Bogart v. King Pharm.

Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Remedies
In qui tam litigation brought against pharmaceutical companies, a district court's ruling rejecting plaintiff's claim for additional attorney's fees...

Ass'n Benefit Servs., Inc. v. Caremark RX, Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit alleging fraud, unjust enrichment and breach of contract against a pharmacy benefit manager by a company formed to facilitate contracts...

Ervin v. Johnson & Johnson, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability suit alleging that a prescription medication caused a blood clot that required the partial amputation of plaintiff's leg,...

Takeda Chem. Indus., Ltd. v. Alphapharm Pty., Ltd.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A decision finding that a patent for a compound used in a diabetes drug was not shown to be invalid under 35 U.S.C. section 103 is affirmed where the...

Penick Corp. v. DEA

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, International Trade
Peition for review of respondent granting intervenor's application for registration as an importer of narcotic raw materials under the Controlled...

Lott v. Pfizer, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law
In a purported class action against a pharmaceutical company alleging misrepresentation of health hazards associated with two drugs, award of...

New Directions Treatment Servs. v. City of Reading

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law
In a methadone clinic's and patients' facial and as-applied challenge to a Pennsylvania statute that facially singles out methadone clinics and gave...